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No. 626,000. Patented `May 30, i899.

L. n. BURLINGHAM. DUUGH BAISER APPARATUS.

(Application led Dec. 8,- 1898.)

(N0 Model.)

UNITED' STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUoIoUs D. BUELINGHAM, E BERLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, AssreN'oR 0E oNE- HALEToHENEY wEYAND, 0E sAME PLACE.

DOUGH-RAISER APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming peut ofY Lettere Patent No. 626,000, dated. Meyeo, 189e.

Application iiled December 8, 1898. Serial No. 698,630. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.- the additional function of akneading-board Be it known lthat l, LUCIOUS D. BURLING-Y and adapted,when opened to perform said HAM, a citizen of the United States,residing at second function, to be supported by brackets Berlin, in thecounty of Somerset and State ofA t, hinged to the rear wall of thecabinet. Ad-

Pennsylvania, have invented a new and uselditional auxiliarypan-supporting shelves 7 55 fulDongh-Raiser Apparatus, of which thefolare hinged upon Ithe side walls of the cabinet lowing is aspecification. and are supported in their operative positions Myinvention relates to a dough-raiser by means of brackets 8. Also accessto the adapted to facilitate maintaining 'a uniform dough-raisingcompartment near its bottom ro temperature for inducing the raising ofdough is had by means of a hinged door 9, havinga 6o both in the form ofsponge, as subsequent to transparent, preferably glass, panel, throughthe mixing operation, and subsequently after which the contents of thedough-raising comthe dough has been molded and placed in the part-mentmay be viewed without opening the bake-pans; and the object in view isto prodoor,'and thereby change the temperature of x5 vide a simple,compact, and ecient cabinet the compartment.

provided with a compartment for flour, sup- Arranged adjacent to theplane of the upports for a dough-tray and bake-pans and per edges of thecabinet-walls are transverse for a receptacle adapted to contain aheating tray-supporting strips 10 and longitudinal agent, andalsoprovided with means for regsupporting-strips 11, the latter beingprovided zo nlating the communication of heat from one with series ofVentilating-openings 12, over 7o compartment to another. which extendslides 13, dovetailed or counter- Further objects and advantages of thisinsunk in grooves in the upper sides of the bars vention will appear inthe following descrip- 11 and provided with openings 14 to registertion,and the novel features thereof willbe parwith those in the bars 11.Said slides are a 5 ticnlarly pointed out in the appended claims.adapted for longitudinal movement to cause 75 In the drawi-ngs, Figure1v is aperspective the registration or non-registration of their view ofa cabinet constructed in accordance openings with those of the bars toallow the with my invention, the lid w-hich forms the cut oif andcirculation of air between the pore kneading-board being shown in fulllines in tions of the dough-raising compartment beits open position andin dotted lines in its low and above the tray-supporting strips. 8cclosed position. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sec- Removably seated uponsaid tray-supporting tion of the cabinet, the hot-Water receptaclestrips or bars is a dough-tray 15,'the top of being shown in full 'linesin the position which said tray snugly filling the space between said itoccupies when the dough is arranged in strips, whereby when in place theonly com- 3 5 bake-pans supported by the rack and in dotted municationbetween the portions of the dough- 8 5 lines in the position which itoccupies when raising compartment above and below the thedoughisarrangedinthedough-tray. Fig. plane of said strips is by way ofthe slide- 3 is a transverse section taken in the plane controlledVentilating-openings formed in the indicated by the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.strips 11.

4o Similar reference characters indicate corre- Arranged near the bottomof the dough- 9o l sponding parts in all the igures of the drawraisingcompartment are opposite rabbeted ings. supporting-strips orguide-ledges 16, adapted The cabinet embodying my invention is difor thereception of a flat hot-water recepta vided interiorly to form a flourreceptacle or cle 17, provided at its front edge with a hancompartment1, beneath which is fitted a die 1S to facilitate its introduction Aandrei 95 drawer 2, and a dough-raising compartment moval and closed at itstop to prevent the es- 3, separated from the flour compartment or capeof steam or moisture, said top being proreceptacle bya verticalpartition 4, and both vided with an opening fitted with aremovdough-raising and flour compartments are able or screw cap 19,whereby hot water may 5o covered by a hinged lid 5, adapted to performbe introduced. Also above the plane of the 10o slides 16 is a pair ofguide-ledges or supporting-strips 20, adapted to support a rack 2l, uponwhich bread-pans 22 may be arranged after the dough has been kneaded andmolded for raising preparatory to the baking operation. lVhen thebread-pans are arranged upon the tray 21, the hot-water receptacle 17should be arranged on the lower ledges 16, as shown in full lines inFig. 2. Also contiguous to the plane of the bottom of the doughtray 15is a pair of ledges or supporting-strips 23, adapted to support the rack21 and the hot-water receptacle 17 during the initial raising of thesponge in the dough-tray 15, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The dough-tray 15 is adapted to perform the function of amixing-receptacle, and as the open-topped flour-receptacle is arrangedWithin convenient reach of the operator it will be obvious that thisportion of the breadmaking process is facilitated. After the completionof the mixing operation the sponge remaining in the dough-tray is causedto rise by arranging the hot-water receptacle upon the rack 21,supported by the ledges 23, the ventilating-opeuings 12 being open toallow the communication of heat to the portion of the dough-raisingcompartment above the plane of the strips 10 and 1l. After thecompletion of this initial dough-raising operation and the subsequentmolding of the dough the latter in the bake-pans will be arranged uponthe rack 2l, supportedby the ledges 20, and the hot-water receptacle 17should be disposed on the lower ledges 16, the Ventilatingopenings 12being closed by means of the slides 13. During this portion of theoperation the condition of the dough may be viewed through thetransparent panel of the door S).

Thus it will be seen that the arrangement of the parts in thedough-raising cabinet embodying my invention is compact, that the numberof the separate parts is small,and that when not in use as adough-raiser the cabinet may be employed as a receptacle for bread afterhaving been baked, and also that various changes in the form,proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted towithout departing from the spirit or sacriicing any of the advantages ofthe invention.

Having described' my invention, what I Claim isl. A dough-raisingcabinet having a compartment provided near its top with horizontaldough-tray-supporting strips having beveled downwardly-convergent inneredges,and also having vents 12, a vent-controlling slide mounted uponeach strip and provided with openings for registration respectively withthe vents, a dough-tray having downwardly-convergent side walls forcontact with the beveled inner edges of said supporting-strips, andadapted to fit snugly in a plane near the upper edges of said wallsbetween said strips, and subjacent ledges arranged in said oompart-mentfor supporting a tray containing a heating agent, substantially asspecified.

2. A dough-raising cabinet having a compartment provided near its topwith supporting-strips having beveled inner edges and series of vents,perforated vent-controlling slides countersunk in said strips with theirupper surfaces Hush with those of the strips, a dough-tray havingdownwardly-convergent side walls fitted adjacent to their upper edgesbetween said strips and in contact with the beveled inner surfacesthereof, upper, lower and intermediate sets of horizontalsupporting-ledges arranged in said compartment b elow the plane of thesupporting-strip, and a rack and a hot-water receptacle adapted to besupported interchangeably by said sets of ledges, substantially asspecified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiiixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LUCIOUS D. BURLINGHAM.

Witnesses:

XVILLIAM SPENCER, A. BRUBAKER.

